Episode 107: Ryuutama RPG Overview, New Dwelling Session, Space Hulk: Death Angel Memories

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Games of the Week (3:41)
• Ryuutama : Natural Fantasy Roleplay: An excerpt from my latest chat with Walt, who lightens the typical mood with a twee-in-the-best-way storytelling game about bards who get into charming entanglements while roaming the medieval Japanese countryside.

• A selection from my latest work with Dwelling a solo RPG for ghosts. We’re at the halfway point of the book, where the narrator descends to the basement of a haunted house for a full-on cocaine flashback. The recall is not euphoric.

• We’re finishing up with Space Hulk: Death Angel, a gripping and cinematic cooperative tactical game that kicked off a multi-year Fantasy Flight Games buying spree that, in retrospect, set the rhythm of our household’s Saturday nights for the next six years.

Track of the Week (23:26)
“Can I Get Open?” by Original Flavor. Follow along as I chase a sample back from this ’93 track and end up finding a well of solstice magic inside the many saxophones of jazz giant Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

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